Voice activated software

Voice activated software

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I am an HR consultant helping an acounting practice examine issues surrounding an employee who may have a disability. One possible solution is to use voice activated software (Dragon Naturally Speaking professional v8) to operate SAGE and Excel. Does anyone have any experience of these combinations they would like to share?

Many thanks,

Quentin Colborn

www.qcpeople.co.uk
Quentin Colborn

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By AnonymousUser
12th May 2006 11:32

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The problem is that the program can not produce the same level of accuracy as a keyboard. If you can live with slow and incorrect data input, say by correcting constantly, then you may get someing in. My advice would be it's not worthwhile.

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By AnonymousUser
12th May 2006 09:08

Search on Any Answers for "dragon" (5 results) and "speech recognition" (1 result) and you will get what everyone else has said.

I can't find the one I commented on last time, so here goes:

My husband is a speech scientist, getting his PhD in Linguistics. He worked with the folks at DragonTalk back when it was called Verbex. They're good honest folks, who want to put out a quality product.

It's also highly rated if you do random web searches for sites that rate these sort of consumer goods.

Caveat, you have to speak differently than normal speech for it to work. My mum's doctor uses it to type up his case notes for each client; very good results with all sorts of weird medical words.

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By tomtrainer
12th May 2006 07:53

Dragon and Outlook
I have only tried to use Dragon with Outlook,and find it impossible to make it recognise commands.

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